the game of scrabble has 100 tiles the diagram shows the number of tiles for each letter and the letters point value. One tile is drawn from scrabble 100 tiles. Find the probability of selecting one of the letters to spell buy.
To find the probability of selecting one of the letters to spell "buy", we need to determine the number of tiles for each letter in the word "buy" and divide it by the total number of tiles.
The word "buy" has 1 'B' tile, 1 'U' tile, and 1 'Y' tile.
The total number of tiles in Scrabble is 100.
Therefore, the probability of selecting one of the letters to spell "buy" is:
(1/100) + (1/100) + (1/100) = 3/100 = 0.03 or 3%.